ANTHOCERCIS LITTO’REA. 
SEA-COAST ANTHOCERCIS. 
EXOGENA, oR DICOTYLEDONEA. 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant a, 
NATURAL ORDER, SOLANACEZ, 
COROLLIFLORE, &3 ; ers divisions 
OF vi to which snotoserntis, 
« DECANDOLLE, y this Plant mt OF LINNEUS. 
No. 102. 
ANTHOCERCIS. LABILLARDIERE. Catyx quinquefidus. Corotra 
camp ubo basi coarctaté staminifera, limbo quinquepartito, equali 
Stamina inclusa, didynama, cum ru q TIGMA capitato-emargin- 
cad 
atum. Capsu ia bildeolars, bivalvis, valyularum ‘isa plintBis Tak inflexis placente 
parallele inse siete Semina reticulata. Frutices glabriusculi. Foura alterna 
petiolato sive attenuata cum ramo articulata, crassa, nunc serio vara anera 
Fiores axillares, subsolitarii pedunculo minute bracteato, ad articulum se- 
pius solubili. Corona alba vel flava, speciosa, tubo intus striato, limbo quan- 
doque = ad octo-partito. Roperr Brown. Prodromus Flore Nove Hol- 
landia, p. 
oda ANTHOCERCIS LITTOREA. LapintarDieRe. Fouts obovatis im- 
punctatis margine levibus utrinque ramulisqne ae amg corollz laciniis 
tubo longioribus, capsula oblonga calycem bis supera 
' CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, a a Catyx five cleft. 
Coro.ta bell-shaped; the tube contracted and bearing the stamens 
at its base; the limb equally five-cleft. StTameENs included in the 
corolla, didynamous, with a rudiment of the fifth. StTiemas capitate, 
emarginate. CApsuLE two-celled, two-valved, the margins of the 
valves bent inwards, attached to the parallel placenta. SreEps reti- 
culate 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, ANTHOCERCIS LITTOREA. Thisis 
an erect Surus, which in its native country attains the height of six 
or eight feet. Leaves obovate or oblong, obtuse, with sometimes a 
small point, perfectly entire, narrowed and sometimes shortly stalked 
at the base, thickish, one-nerved, not dotted, and perfectly smooth as 
well as the branches. FLOweEnr either solitary, or one or two together 
from the axille of the upper leaves, or more frequently several together 
in loose terminal racemes. PrpuNncLeEs furnished with a few small 
bracts, pedicels larger than the calyx, naked or furnished with two ex- 
ceedingly minute bracts Catyx bell-shaped, the tube narrowed at 
the base, five-ribbed, smooth ; division of the limb linear, rather longer 
